Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore announced the Five-Wizard Tournament, its visiting schools, prize money, and entry requirements, while Wizet and Luna later heard Cho Chang describe her successful swan Animagus transformation. The chapter ended with Cho Chang withholding what she knew about Katie Bell’s Animagus.

• Dumbledore announced that Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, Uagadou, and Ilvermorny would attend the Five-Wizard Tournament, with Champion selection on Halloween Eve and a prize of one thousand Gold Galleons.
• Dumbledore explained that students aged seventeen and older could apply, while younger students could qualify by passing a trial to be announced on the notice board.
• Wizet and Luna sang the Hogwarts school song together to the tune of a hymn, with Luna distracting Wizet by holding his hand.
• Wizet and Luna returned to the Ravenclaw common room, where Cho Chang announced that she had become a swan Animagus.
• Cho Chang described her transformation to Wizet and Luna, then avoided revealing Katie Bell’s Animagus form.

The Sorting Hat complained to Dumbledore about the new students resisting its House choices, but Dumbledore reassured it that they had appreciated being sorted into Ravenclaw. Dumbledore then used the Spirit-Calling Casket to observe Barty Crouch Jr. finding Voldemort, leaving Barty trapped in a giant snake’s coils as he greeted his master.

• The Sorting Hat told Dumbledore that Graham Pritchard and Aura Quirk had resisted its preferred House placements.
• Dumbledore comforted the Sorting Hat by suggesting the students had been grateful to enter Ravenclaw, and returned it to the cupboard to compose next year’s Sorting Song.
• The Sorting Hat argued with Phineas Nigellus Black, who vanished from his portrait after it recalled his threat to throw it into the Black Lake.
• Dumbledore used the Spirit-Calling Casket to watch Barty Crouch Jr. follow the Dark Mark to a manor where Voldemort was waiting.
• A giant venomous snake coiled around Barty Crouch Jr., and Voldemort appeared as Barty tearfully declared his loyalty.

Voldemort tested Barty Crouch Jr., accepted his loyalty, and learned how he had escaped and found him. Voldemort revealed that he needed Harry Potter’s blood and another person’s blood to regain a powerful body, but both targets were at Hogwarts, where a strange map could expose him.

• Voldemort used black mist to test Barty Crouch Jr., then ordered Nagini to release him and called him his most loyal servant.
• Dumbledore recognized the snake’s name, Nagini, and recalled a cursed witch who had shared it.
• Barty Crouch Jr. recounted his imprisonment by Barty Crouch Sr., his escape, and his search for Voldemort.
• Voldemort told Barty Crouch Jr. about learning of Hogwarts and the Five-Wizard Tournament from Bertha Jorkins.
• Voldemort said he needed Harry Potter’s blood and another person’s blood, but explained that a strange map at Hogwarts could identify anyone who infiltrated the school.

Barty Crouch Jr. proposed using Barty Crouch Sr.'s identity to infiltrate Hogwarts and target Igor Karkaroff at Durmstrang, while Voldemort considered adapting Gellert Grindelwald's ideals. After reviewing Barty's memories, Dumbledore reflected on how Voldemort's changing plans could reduce casualties and adjusted his understanding of the threat.

• Barty Crouch Jr. told Voldemort he could use Barty Crouch Sr.'s name and position to carry out tasks without arousing suspicion.
• Voldemort praised Barty's plan and identified Igor Karkaroff, headmaster of Durmstrang, as a traitor who should pay for betraying him.
• Barty and Voldemort discussed Durmstrang as a suitable place to pursue Voldemort's revised ideals, which drew on Gellert Grindelwald's ideas.
• Dumbledore reviewed Barty Crouch Jr.'s experiences and concluded that Voldemort's restored wisdom made him harder to predict but more open to negotiation.
• Dumbledore considered that Voldemort's plans for Durmstrang or the International Statute of Secrecy could lead to fewer casualties, then protected the Spirit-Calling Casket again.

Wizet and Luna helped Sprout tend mature Bubotubers as Hogwarts students buzzed about the Five-Wizard Tournament. After Transfiguration, Wizet learned that Hagrid had successfully bred Blast-Ended Skrewts and asked Draco about Manticores and Fire Crabs.

• Wizet and Luna discussed the Thunderbird egg Jupiter and planned to take it to Hagrid.
• Wizet and Luna helped Sprout fertilize plants while Sprout moved mature Bubotubers into Greenhouse Three.
• Students discussed the Five-Wizard Tournament, and Dennis Creevey told Wizet how the Sorting Hat had sent him to Gryffindor.
• Professor McGonagall gave the first Transfiguration lesson and assigned no homework.
• Wizet used a cleaning charm on Draco Malfoy, who explained that Hagrid's Blast-Ended Skrewts smelled terrible.
• Wizet recalled Hagrid's letter about breeding an unusual magical creature and asked Draco whether he knew about Manticores and Fire Crabs.

Wizet discussed magical creatures with Draco, who recognized how much he had learned and felt more confident speaking with Wizet. Later, Wizet and Luna welcomed four North American first-years to Ravenclaw and helped them solve the common-room riddle.

• Draco described Manticores and Fire Crabs, then deduced that Hagrid had bred Blast-Ended Skrewts from them.
• Wizet explained that Hippogriffs had been bred from Griffins and horses, and Draco marveled at magical creature breeding.
• Wizet left Draco and joined Luna, who was waving to him near the moving staircase.
• Four North American first-years told Wizet and Luna about their first experiences at Hogwarts, including Dennis being tossed back into the boat by the Giant Squid.
• The first-years struggled with the Ravenclaw door's riddle, so Wizet answered that they had already given the answer through their actions.
• Wizet suggested silence, a secret, a fetus, and darkness as possible answers, and the bronze ring accepted them.

Wizet explained to Snape how a wizard’s emotions and will could apply Zygmunt Budge’s potion theory to guide a potion’s effects. Snape revealed a recently brewed Felix Felicis and gave it to Wizet to study, leaving Wizet to wonder whether the theory could catalyze potions like an enhancer.

• Snape kept Wizet after Potions class and asked him how Zygmunt Budge’s theory could be applied in practice.
• Wizet argued that potion quality depended on understanding potion principles, controlling ingredients, and combining a suitable emotional state with deliberate will.
• Snape nodded at Wizet’s explanation and showed him a vial of Felix Felicis.
• Wizet identified the potion as recently brewed and realized Snape had likely used Budge’s theory to brew it in little over a month.
• Snape gave the Felix Felicis to Wizet to study and asked him to report back on the weekend.
• Wizet asked whether a wizard’s will could use Budge’s theory to catalyze a potion like an enhancer.

Wizet explained how a wizard's focus and willpower could act as a catalyst, enhancer, and stabilizer in potion-making, then demonstrated his theory by brewing a Boil-Cure Potion for Snape. The potion finished in moments, leaving Snape to consider Wizet's method.

• Wizet proposed that wizards could serve as catalysts, enhancers, and stabilizers while brewing potions, and Snape let him continue explaining.
• Wizet suggested Snape's classroom patrols might have pressured students to focus, but Snape denied it.
• Wizet connected potion-making to Apparition's three D's: Destination, Determination, and Deliberation.
• Wizet brewed a Boil-Cure Potion, using his will and Magic Eye to grind and boil ingredients and control the brewing process.
• Wizet concluded that focus and willpower acted as a catalyst by greatly accelerating potion-making.

Wizet impressed Snape by brewing an enhanced Boil-Cure Potion in minutes and received a vial of Felix Felicis. After sharing a quiet moment with Luna, he offered her the potion, and they decided to divide it among Luna, her father, and Dobby.

• Wizet explained how he enhanced the Boil-Cure Potion, and Snape marveled at how quickly he had brewed it.
• Snape gave Wizet the Felix Felicis and left after deducting five points from Ravenclaw.
• Wizet found Luna finishing her Herbology homework in the common room and told her about his discovery.
• Wizet and Luna held hands and fell asleep beside each other at the table.
• Wizet offered Luna the Felix Felicis, and Luna suggested sharing it with her father and Dobby.

Mad-Eye Moody began his Defense Against the Dark Arts class by testing students’ knowledge and caution, using a poisoned sweet to demonstrate the need for constant vigilance. The lesson continued as he demanded that the class explain the words written on the blackboard.

• Wizet told his friends that Moody’s repeated warning to maintain constant vigilance was central to understanding his lessons.
• Moody quizzed Draco Malfoy on treating a werewolf bite, awarded Slytherin three points, and warned Draco that he was watching the Malfoy family.
• Moody had Daphne Greengrass and Padma Patil hand out sweets, and most students held back after seeing Wizet and Draco refuse theirs.
• Pansy Parkinson ate a sweet and began retching, so Moody gave Daphne another sweet and Wizet identified it as the antidote.
• Daphne fed Pansy the antidote, Moody cleaned up the mess, and he made the students read “Constant vigilance” aloud.

Moody explained the demanding requirements and practical training for becoming an Auror, then taught the students how to use the Impediment Jinx in combat. After Anthony knocked Michael down with a combination of spells, Moody challenged his assumptions about fighting in a real battle.

• Moody used the Puking Pastilles to explain why Aurors needed to recognize dangerous magic and harmful sweets.
• Moody described the N.E.W.T. grades, magical subjects, and rigorous training required to become an Auror.
• Wizet explained that he had used Scarpin's Revelaspell to confirm the second sweet was an antidote, and Moody awarded Ravenclaw ten points for his caution.
• Moody taught the students the Impediment Jinx and had them practice combat with partners.
• Anthony hit Michael with the Dancing Feet Spell and then the Impediment Jinx, knocking him down.
• Moody questioned Anthony's claim that the combination would have decided a real fight.

Moody arranged a combat demonstration with Wizet to teach the students how real wizard battles worked. McGonagall joined them and transformed an empty classroom into forest terrain, leaving the duel about to begin.

• Moody criticized Anthony Goldstein and Michael, explaining how to disarm and incapacitate an enemy who might still be dangerous.
• Moody asked Wizet to demonstrate real combat, and Wizet agreed before the class could leave.
• Fred and George heard that Moody and Wizet would duel, gathered other students, and alerted McGonagall.
• McGonagall found Moody and Wizet preparing an empty classroom and agreed to arrange terrain for their duel.
• After Wizet said he had fought on dueling platforms and in forests, McGonagall used her wand to turn the classroom into a forest scene.

George learned that Fred, Harry, and Ron had been taken by Snape to clean the Potions classroom in Seamus's place. Meanwhile, Wizet and Alastor Moody fought a stealthy duel in McGonagall's transformed forest, and their exchange of layered spells continued as Moody dodged fiery blasts.

• George learned from Neville and Seamus that Snape had taken Fred, Harry, and Ron away to clean the classroom and scoop frog brains after Seamus blew up a cauldron.
• Minerva McGonagall transformed the classroom into a small forest and expanded the doorway so the gathered students could watch Wizet and Alastor Moody duel.
• Wizet and Moody used Disillusionment and Quietening Charms to conceal themselves as they searched for each other through the forest.
• The hidden duelists traded spells through the vegetation, prompting Professor McGonagall to identify combinations of Impediment, Knockback, and other jinxes.
• Wizet and Moody revealed themselves and countered one another's attacks, with Wizet sending firebirds at Moody and Moody blocking them with a magical energy field.
• Moody pole-vaulted sideways with his cane as fiery explosions erupted behind him.

Wizet and Moody continued their duel in the smoke-filled little forest while McGonagall explained how the Impediment Jinx could incorporate Transfiguration. Moody’s attacks kept pressing Wizet, but Wizet’s smoke hindered Moody’s magical eye and his silent Shield Charm stopped the cane strikes.

• McGonagall explained that the Impediment Jinx had originated as a Transfiguration spell and could be combined with other magic to strengthen its effects.
• The smoke from the burning books spread through the little forest as Wizet and Moody traded spells and brought down trees.
• Wizet swept his wand to refill a gap in the smoke, keeping the haze between Moody and himself as they fought at close range.
• McGonagall realized Wizet had made the smoke to interfere with Moody’s magical eye and its ability to sense magic.
• Moody repeatedly swung his cane at Wizet, whose silent Shield Charm knocked the blows away.

Wizet appeared to lose his duel with Alastor Moody, but Moody revealed that Wizet had secretly blocked his final spell and conceded to teach the students a lesson about staying alert. Afterward, Wizet and Luna revisited the battle through their magical connection, while Wizet's roommates reported that Michael had been caught by Snape.

• Wizet disarmed Moody, but Moody drew a hidden wand from his wooden leg and apparently disarmed Wizet in return.
• Wizet admitted defeat, and Moody used the duel to teach the students not to assume a battle was over before their opponent was fully incapacitated.
• McGonagall learned that Wizet had blocked Moody's Stupefy with a Shield Charm and deliberately thrown away his wand to make the lesson more memorable.
• Students discussed the duel and the upcoming Five-Wizard Tournament while Luna used her magical connection with Wizet to relive the battle.
• Wizet's roommates told him that Snape had caught Michael and sent him to dig out Frog Brain pulp.

Wizet examined Snape’s ingredients and reasoned out how Memory Potion worked, then identified the purpose of the other unusual components in the new potion. He concluded that the potion was designed to bring a drinker’s fears to the surface, though Snape had not yet confirmed its purpose.

• Wizet saw buckets of frog brains and numerous potion ingredients in Snape’s office, including Fwooper feathers, peppermint, and Alihotsy Tree leaves.
• Wizet explained that those three ingredients formed the basis of Memory Potion, which stirred memories and then countered the resulting hysteria.
• Snape asked Wizet to identify the purpose of the new potion they would be making.
• Wizet connected ambergris to exploring a person’s dark side, ash leaves to loneliness, and Belladonna to hallucination and relaxation.
• Wizet examined Vampire Tumbleweed fangs and concluded that the ingredients were meant to make the drinker tense and uneasy, bringing their fears to the surface.

Wizet deduced that Snape’s potion was meant to make drinkers vividly recall fear, and inferred that it should be used as incense to send words through dreams. After Snape confirmed his conclusions, Wizet began calculating the ingredient quantities and preparing to brew it.

• Wizet identified rosemary and morning glory seeds as ingredients that would make the drinker’s remembered fear vivid in a dream, and Snape confirmed his deductions.
• Wizet concluded that the frog brain matter had been imbued with fear, and Snape confirmed that the potion’s purpose was to make drinkers recall frightening experiences.
• Wizet recalled Luna’s story about sending words through dandelion seeds in dreams and deduced that the potion should be used as incense, with the seeds added after the cauldron was removed from the heat.
• Snape confirmed Wizet’s interpretation of the dandelion’s use.
• Wizet set up the cauldron and used Arithmancy and Ancient Runes to calculate the ingredient quantities as he began brewing.

Wizet brewed Snape’s fear-recalling potion and confirmed his formula matched Snape’s, then began planning ways to cut its cost by reducing ambergris. Dumbledore arrived to ask about a cheaper substitute while Wizet continued refining the revised recipe.

• Wizet calculated the potion’s high ingredient costs and realized Snape had used fear-imbued frog brain pulp as a cheaper substitute.
• Wizet brewed the potion from his notes and found its color and fragrance identical to Snape’s sample.
• Wizet proposed reducing the ambergris and compensating with more frog brain pulp and ash leaves, but Snape warned that ambergris’s deep-sea properties required more than extra frog brain pulp.
• Dumbledore entered Snape’s office to ask about the cheaper substitute and the approaching selection assessment.
• Wizet decided to use three portions of ash leaves and delay shredding them until they were needed to preserve their magical property of loneliness.

Wizet successfully improved Snape’s potion recipe using fewer ingredients, and Dumbledore revealed that the potion would support a Hogwarts selection assessment. The chapter ended with Snape bringing Dumbledore the brewed Fear potions and leaving after Dumbledore teased him about being pleased with Wizet’s progress.

• Wizet adjusted Snape’s recipe and successfully brewed the improved potion, confirming its color changed as expected when he added ambergris and Frog Brain paste.
• Dumbledore praised Wizet, and Wizet asked whether Snape had developed the potion for the selection assessment.
• Dumbledore explained that the assessment took place every five years, that he wanted to offer students another opportunity, and that a notice would appear the following Monday.
• Dumbledore confirmed the potion would be used with a magical item and said he knew some alchemy that could help.
• Snape brought Dumbledore the brewed Fear potions late at night, and Dumbledore said Wizet had already optimized the recipe to use fewer ingredients.
• Dumbledore suggested Snape must be pleased by Wizet’s progress, but Snape left without answering.

Hogwarts students learned that the Five-Wizard Tournament selection trial would begin at noon and discovered that entry required answering questions about the Triwizard Tournament. Wizet received an Ancient Runes rubbing from Bathsheda Babbling and discussed the tournament’s dangerous history with Anthony Goldstein.

• Students found the selection announcement and learned that the trial began at noon on September 19 in an empty classroom beside the library.
• Students searched the classroom for clues, then discussed the unexplained trial during breakfast and struggled to focus in class.
• Bathsheda Babbling gave Wizet an Ancient Runes rubbing, and Wizet translated her classroom blessing exercise.
• Anthony Goldstein told Wizet and Michael Corner that the classroom door asked questions about the Triwizard Tournament before allowing students inside.
• Wizet recommended books about the tournament and explained that past first tasks had involved dangerous creatures, including dragons.